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>> reporter: absolutely, monica. a fabulous leave-d-in by the producers. back and forth boxing match. its receiving a lot of attention on the "today" show, front page of the "washington post." its showing the ideological divide in the republican party. charlie crist was seen by a moderate by many, invited president obama down and embraced him for stimulus funds. that turned out to be the kiss of death. someone you thought in 06 and 08 would do well has not passed this purity test. its three-way,...

With the identity theft charge and it stems from an 08 incident where a former university of tennessee student, david kernell is charged with hacking into her personal yahoo! account and taking e-mails and posting them on on-line message boards and figured out how to get into the password security question and others did and he has been in court, and during the 4th day of deliberations, the judge this morning told them go back, reconsider your positions and try to decide the fourth charge. david...

Showing among hispanic voters and theyre the fastest growing population in america. theyre going to be the majority in this country by 2050, some say 2040 if not earlier. certainly in california will come even sooner. republicans know in order to win, theyre cant look like theyre -- >> the hispanic voting bloc which keeps growing, pat buchanan i dont think is correct, the hispanic voting bloc is up for grabs. you just ask the bushes, jeb bush did extraordinarily well among hispanics in florida. ...

Backed president obama very solidly, some say, a turning point in the presidents 08 election race and now you have a twist in the story. and it is sorts of of the "not in my backyard" kind, the administration announced yesterday theyll go ahead with a hugely controversial project that the late senator did not want to see go through off the shores of the kennedy compound for a variety of reasons, in hyannis, cape cod and will eb this first offshore wind farm. 130 windmills, all of them, 400 feet ...

I remember those scary days where this was almost a financial run on the system. its one of the reason why parts of the bill that havent gotten as much attention that were trying to put some speed bumps on these larger institutions. trying to make sure theres a whole new set of capital that would convert to equity if a bank got into a problem and having these institutions -- a plan that would have to be signed off by a regulator. so going out of business in an orderly fashion, that will help the...

Around them because as we saw without any kind of rules, they can leave with such interconnectedness that the whole system can collapse. >> without defending goldman, isnt it possible had they not been hedging, they could have been one of the banks that failed? >> i think hedging is an appropriate use as long as everybody is informed and theres more transparency. lets also remember, i remember those scary days in september of 08 when it appeared for a couple of days that goldman and morgan stanl...

>> im always encouraged to hear good news. we also -- look, larry, my role is to give voice to those and there are still hundreds of thousands of people whose homes are being foreclosed upon. there needs to be a moratorium promised during the campaign of 08 so people have a chance to catch up. the obama administration has done a number of things to help, but, you know, for those who have done well in the past and are doing well now, things are a little bit better. but we cant leave all these peo...

Good news. we also -- look, larry, my role is to give voice to those and there are still hundreds of thousands of people whose homes are being foreclosed upon. there needs to be a moratorium promised during the campaign of 08 so people have a chance to catch up. the obama administration has done a number of things to help, but, you know, for those who have done well in the past and are doing well now, things are a little bit better. but we cant leave all these people behind. a lot of people got ...

What im interested in is for the truth to come out neither did i do anything wrong, president obama didnt do anything wrong. the senators that i talked to didnt do anything wrong either. they should come into court and tell the truth as they know it. swear on the holy bible as im looking forward to do -- >> greta: i got that the judge is going to say how is president obama going to help your case? tell me how. >> again, a lot of evidence and information that im prohibited by court order, because...

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